Myself and herself went downtown to Singapore’s premier Irish bar last night. What a disappointment! It’s called “Molly Malones” and apparently was imported brick by brick from the auld country.
Well, for a start, they could have picked a much nicer pub to import, if they were going to go to that much trouble! That it was full of half canned Yanks and Brits didn’t help much either. It's not a real simulation of an Irish pub because smoking is allowed! Not having been subjected to that rank odour for a long time made it even worse. Apparently, the Irish bar around the corner from me here doesn't allow smoking, so it's a more accurate Irish pub!
It was in a nice part of town, so we vamoosed out of there fairly sharpish and went for a moonlit walk by the river (with the hundreds of others and the hawkers every 5 feet trying to get us into their restaurants!!). Who says romance is dead?!
Saturday, February 11, 2006
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Forgot to say that it looks like drink (a topic some of you may have a little interest in!) is a bit more expensive over here.
Apparently, shots/licquors are about €6 (I found this out the hard way, thereby cancelling plans to get herself drunk on Baileys!!!). A pint of beer is the same ballpark, I think.
I paid a record (for me) for a mineral water, even if it was some fancy Italian stuff. It was about €3.50. Since it was an Irish bar, you'd think they'd import Irish water, if they were going to get it from Europe at all.
I'd say it good drink is so expensive. I wouldn't be suprised if you get 10 years hard labour for being drunk and disorderly in public over there.
They're not that bad - it's only 8 years for your first offence!
Forgot to mention in the main post - the main slogan on TV beer ads here is "drink to your heart's content".
I told herself that there's no way they'd use a slogan like that in Ireland (and that they use slogans to the contrary like "please drink responsibly (and don't make a complete tool of yourself!)"!!!!!!
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